WEEK 9 / Stratification/ ANGELA WIBOWO

STRATIFICATION 

Summary :

Now we will talking about stratification in society. Stratificaton is the hierarchical arrangement of people in a society, and usually it is from economic stratification, which means that people differentiated by their wealth or power. Stratification related with inequality, and according to the article, sociology has a long history of studying these topic. Inequality means the not every people has access to scarce and valued resources in society. The resource can be economic, political, health care, education, jobs, property, land ownership, housing, and ability to influence government policy.

According to the article, social stratification is related to socioeconomic status. Actually, there are so many ways to measure socioeconomic status, and according to the article there are 3 characteristics and indicator od=f social class or socioeconomic status, there are power, property, and prestige. Power means the ability to order, or make someone do what they order, and usually it called authority. Property means what is that people has, such as stocks, homes, saving, income and other, and this is related with the economic. Prestige means the esteem, reputation of someone in the society, prestige can be found in family name, but for most people in developed countries, prestige related with occupation.

What was interesting / what did you learn ?

. I’ve learn something about social stratification and I’m interested with this topic, and it is related with our social life. I found it is interesting that we have so many ways to measure it, and I found that every country can have their own stratification and how to measure it. 

Disscussion :

I want to know how dangerrous our society life is, and about inequality, is it dangerous, or urgent to be eliminated these days? If it urgent, can we make the inequality to become equal?